This essay by Katherine McKittrick explores plantation geographies. In drawing specific attention to the ways past configurations of the plantation are recast in post-slave urban contexts, the discussion signals the links between black dispossession and geography, while also considering how assertions of decolonial practices, black life, and black futures are embedded in place.
Katherine McKittrick, "Plantation Futures", contributed by Jason Ludwig, Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 24 July 2019, accessed 1 December 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/plantation-futures
Critical Commentary
This essay by Katherine McKittrick explores plantation geographies. In drawing specific attention to the ways past configurations of the plantation are recast in post-slave urban contexts, the discussion signals the links between black dispossession and geography, while also considering how assertions of decolonial practices, black life, and black futures are embedded in place.